Washington: Indian-American Swadesh Chatterjee, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001, has said that the Indian-American community may be small in terms of population, but it has the potential to play a significant role in changing the foreign policy of America. Chatterjee, a North Carolina native, has been instrumental in shaping some of the key milestones in Indo-US bilateral relations, including the lifting of sanctions on India after the nuclear test and the civil nuclear talks between New Delhi and Washington in the US Parliament. Including getting the deal approved.
Addressing the Indian-American community at an event here on Wednesday, he said that the India-US relationship is only at the surface level and many other key areas, including clean energy, global health and innovation, are important for both the countries. There is immense potential for collaboration. Chatterjee said that today it is the Indian-American community, however small, that it is so politically powerful that it actually has the potential to change America’s foreign policy, and even its policy towards India. Is. This is an indicator of the growing dominance of the Indian-American community and you should all be proud of it.
He said that we should work very hard. The work has just begun. There will be misunderstandings between India and us, there will be challenges. As you are well aware that when Russia attacked Ukraine, India did not support America in the United Nations. Did this attitude bother many people? But, India-US relations cannot always be on ‘auto pilot mode’. Challenges are bound to come before them.
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